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Volume 15, No. 21 Nov. 9, 1987
Roadrunners face tough schedule
Lettermen, transfers to drive team
The 1987-88 edition of the UTSA Roadrunner basktball team is ready to face
one of its most challenging seasons.
In his first season at the helm. Coach Ken Burmeister led the scrappy Roadrunners to a 13-15 record last year, a vast improvement over the previous season.
In fact, UTSA has the ninth most improved record in the nation last year, according to the Dunkel Index.
This season, Burmeister will blend a solid group of returning players with a list
of topnotch newcomers as the Roadrunners prepare to face the best in the country. The schedule includes six teams that were in post-season tournaments last
year, including NCAA finalist Syracuse, NIT finalist La Salle and traditional
basketball power De Paul. Unfortunately for Roadrunner fans, those three are
road games.
Helping coach the Roadrunners again this year are two assistants from last
season, Gary Marriott and Mike Wacker. Newcomers to Burmeister's staff include graduate assistant David Oliver and student assistant Glynn Cyprien.
The Roadrunners open the current season with seven returning lettermen, including 6-4 senior guard/forward and co-captain Frank Hampton, who led UTSA
in scoring at 18.1 points per game while being named Newcomer of the Year in
the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) last season.
Other returnees include 6-0 senior guard Todd Barnes, 6-8 senior forward
Lennell Moore, 6-9 junior center Tim Faulkner, 6-4 junior guard/forward Dion
Pettus, 6-7 sophomore forward Tim Knowles and 6-6 sophomore guard/forward
Tony Panzica.
Several top transfers also have come to UTSA over the past year. They include
6-8 senior forward and co-captain Clarence McGee, 6-9 junior center Grant Martin, 6-9 sophomore center Bruce Wheatley, 6-4 junior guard Eric Cooper and 6-0
junior guard Scott Smith.
Mike Bragg, a 6-7 junior forward, returns to the squad after being injured in
1986 and subsequently redshirted. Freshmen Gary Durbon, 6-3 guard, and
Keith Home, 6-4 guard/forward, round out the team.
"Our goal is to win the conference championship and play in the NCAA Tournament," Burmeister said. "We will continue to be a team that plays hard every
time out. We believe this year we have the highly skilled players to play fast
break basketball and high pressure defense, both of which are so important in
college basketball today."
Highlighting the Roadrunners 1 987-88 schedule is an exhibition game against
New Zealand on Wednesday, a berth in the Hartford Tournament in Connecticut
Nov. 27-28, back-to-back road games against Syracuse and De Paul Dec. 21
and 23, and the first TAAC game Jan. 2 against Georgia Southern in the
CONVO. UTSA will play cross-town rival St. Mary's University in Round V of the
Mayor's Challenge Cup at HemisFair Arena Jan. 20. Clarence McGee.
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Frank Hampton.

Volume 15, No. 21 Nov. 9, 1987
Roadrunners face tough schedule
Lettermen, transfers to drive team
The 1987-88 edition of the UTSA Roadrunner basktball team is ready to face
one of its most challenging seasons.
In his first season at the helm. Coach Ken Burmeister led the scrappy Roadrunners to a 13-15 record last year, a vast improvement over the previous season.
In fact, UTSA has the ninth most improved record in the nation last year, according to the Dunkel Index.
This season, Burmeister will blend a solid group of returning players with a list
of topnotch newcomers as the Roadrunners prepare to face the best in the country. The schedule includes six teams that were in post-season tournaments last
year, including NCAA finalist Syracuse, NIT finalist La Salle and traditional
basketball power De Paul. Unfortunately for Roadrunner fans, those three are
road games.
Helping coach the Roadrunners again this year are two assistants from last
season, Gary Marriott and Mike Wacker. Newcomers to Burmeister's staff include graduate assistant David Oliver and student assistant Glynn Cyprien.
The Roadrunners open the current season with seven returning lettermen, including 6-4 senior guard/forward and co-captain Frank Hampton, who led UTSA
in scoring at 18.1 points per game while being named Newcomer of the Year in
the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) last season.
Other returnees include 6-0 senior guard Todd Barnes, 6-8 senior forward
Lennell Moore, 6-9 junior center Tim Faulkner, 6-4 junior guard/forward Dion
Pettus, 6-7 sophomore forward Tim Knowles and 6-6 sophomore guard/forward
Tony Panzica.
Several top transfers also have come to UTSA over the past year. They include
6-8 senior forward and co-captain Clarence McGee, 6-9 junior center Grant Martin, 6-9 sophomore center Bruce Wheatley, 6-4 junior guard Eric Cooper and 6-0
junior guard Scott Smith.
Mike Bragg, a 6-7 junior forward, returns to the squad after being injured in
1986 and subsequently redshirted. Freshmen Gary Durbon, 6-3 guard, and
Keith Home, 6-4 guard/forward, round out the team.
"Our goal is to win the conference championship and play in the NCAA Tournament," Burmeister said. "We will continue to be a team that plays hard every
time out. We believe this year we have the highly skilled players to play fast
break basketball and high pressure defense, both of which are so important in
college basketball today."
Highlighting the Roadrunners 1 987-88 schedule is an exhibition game against
New Zealand on Wednesday, a berth in the Hartford Tournament in Connecticut
Nov. 27-28, back-to-back road games against Syracuse and De Paul Dec. 21
and 23, and the first TAAC game Jan. 2 against Georgia Southern in the
CONVO. UTSA will play cross-town rival St. Mary's University in Round V of the
Mayor's Challenge Cup at HemisFair Arena Jan. 20. Clarence McGee.
■ft
Frank Hampton.